Best Hubble Images. Want to feel insignificant?

[onehandle]

Start clicking through these images shot by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The two "galaxy field" shots do it for me.

http://www.space.com/bestimg/index.php?cat=hst

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1. Isn't the Hubble doomed? Isn't it about over? No more fudning or something

Like a year or two ago - wasn't that a big story, at least here?

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[dave29]

2. As an aside

I tend to look at the vastness of space and everything it contains as making us rather unique and significant. Thinking of how lucky we are to have such a safe haven that we might have a chance at moving beyond our home planet to see what else is out there.

[Botany]

3. Thanx!

smart knowledge is good and what not

[renate]

14. aww....

I love the juxtaposition of the Hubble pictures of the vastness of space and the picture of this lovely little moment on our tiny piece of space dust.

We can either take comfort from the knowledge that the universe is huge and, on the whole, beautiful despite Earth's little speck of spiritual corruption and ecological contamination (although, to be honest, I think that the people who are spiritually corrupt get undeservedly more press than the billions of good people doing good things every day, and that Earth is, overall, really good), or from the beauty of the little moment of love, trust, and attachment in your picture.

[donheld]

4. Thank you for posting this link

I love seeing these photos.

[DemInDistress]

5. saw this 2 yrs ago on NBC..still its an awesome sight..nt

[Der Blaue Engel]

6. "I am the eye in the sky..."

"...looking at you...."

[hang a left]

7. Awesome!!!

[pansypoo53219]

8. astronomy picture of the day is way better

when i first discovered it, i had to go through a few years of archives.

[renate]

13. I absolutely agree--it's my home page

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

No better way to start the day.

And here are the archives:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Already do....I'm a Democrat.

Hahah...Couldn't help it.
I love the Hubble pix. a couple years ago I bought a huge full color coffee table book of the pix up to then.

Every star we see in the night sky is from our own galaxy. The hubble has brought the wonders of the rest of the cosmos to my living room.

It's truly overwhelming to see images that cannot be described by words in area that cannot be defined by conventional measure.

[jbnow]

10. The kind of insignificance

that fills you with wonder and delight.

[kentuck]

11. Fantastic!

Great!

[AlienGirl]

12. I find it extremely comforting.

The implication, to me, of all that space out there, and all that time it's been there and will continue to be there, is that no matter how messed-up my life seems, there are things that are unaffected by any tragedy that might befall me, things that are safe and will remain so. Cosmological stuff and small-scale particle stuff comfort me when I think everything's out of control.

Tucker

[Occulus]

15. Funny you should put it that way, because

I also feel insignifigant when considering quarks, or concepts like entangelment.

There is so much we don't know, which is why I love the more, ah, 'exotic' experiments- such as what they're doing at Sandia with the Z machine.

It all makes me feel insignifigant.

[zbdent]

16. Actually, I feel inadequate . . .

(it's a guy thing . . . they seem phallic . . .)

Seriously, if the righties are right and we are truly alone in this universe, I feel sad . . . and embarassed that this is the best that "our Creator" could come up with, Intelligent Designer that "he" is . . .